Shadow of the Thin Man

Spaghetti and meatballs.

Shadow of the Thin Man, 1941, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy.

This was the fourth installment in the Thin Man series and the creative talents had walked away; Dashiell Hammett wasn't involved. Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the husband and wife team who wrote the first three Thin Man scripts, refused to write another one. And it shows, not much meat on the bone in this story (that's an Asta pun).

Hammett was a good writer. His Continental Op stories are favorites. I would think someone in the film or television industry would pick those up and put them on a screen, big or small. One Continental Op story was the basis for an episode in the Fallen Angels anthology series, Fly Paper in Season Two, Episode Seven. So it can be done. It should be done.